Public Understanding of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Understanding of Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A triangulated approach for understanding scientists’ perceptions of public engagement with science38
“It shouldn’t look aggressive”: How conceptions about publics shape the development of mining exploration technologies34
Going beyond political ideology: A computational analysis of civic trust in science28
Who is at risk of bias? Examining dispositional differences in motivated science reception28
Contested science communication: Representations of scientists and their science in newspaper articles and the associated comment sections26
A four-level model of political polarization over science: Evidence from 10 European countries26
Poly-truth, or the limits of pluralism: Popular debates on conspiracy theories in a post-truth era26
Tensions in the public communication by scientists and scientific institutions: Sources, dimensions, and ways forward25
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies24
Online politicizations of science: Contestation versus denialism at the convergence between COVID-19 and climate science on Twitter24
Public support for government use of network surveillance: An empirical assessment of public understanding of ethics in science administration23
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’: Public engagement with geoengineering and the politics of the climate crisis23
Communicating trust and trustworthiness through scientists’ biographies: Benevolence beliefs22
Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science20
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media19
Explainable AI and trust: How news media shapes public support for AI-powered autonomous passenger drones17
Partisanship and anti-elite worldviews as correlates of science and health beliefs in the multi-party system of Spain17
The role of motivated science reception and numeracy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic17
More engagement but less participation: China’s alternative approach to public communication of science and technology17
Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society16
Bruce Lewenstein: ‘Our work is critical for the issues of the day . . . we must engage’15
On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women’s claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device15
Narrativization of human population genetics: Two cases in Iceland and Russia15
‘Poetry under siege by rockets’: A case study of the creative and critical coverage by the New York Times of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk14
How does the French press handle a controversial biotechnology? A psychosocial study of media coverage of human genome editing14
Counteracting climate denial: A systematic review14
The role of journalistic voice in communicating climate scepticism13
The politics of politicization: Climate change debates in Canadian print media13
1992: The first issue of Public Understanding of Science13
Scientism, trust, value alignment, views of nature, and U.S. public opinion about gene drive mosquitos12
Book Review: Diarmid A. Finnegan, The Voice of Science: British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America12
Comparing the influence of intellectual humility, religiosity, and political conservatism on vaccine attitudes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom12
Children’s perceptions of scientists and their work: The ‘Draw a Scientist’ Test in the United Arab Emirates12
The legitimacy of science and the populist backlash: Cross-national and longitudinal trends and determinants of attitudes toward science11
Delineating between scientism and science enthusiasm: Challenges in measuring scientism and the development of novel scale11
The divide so wide: Public perspectives on the role of human genome editing in the US healthcare system11
Examining science communication on Reddit: From an “Assembled” to a “Disassembling” approach10
Book review: Felicity Mellor (ed.), Insights on Science Journalism10
Follow the metrics? How does social media affect the journalistic practices of digital science communication start-ups?10
The effects of self-disclosure and gender on a climate scientist’s credibility and likability on social media10
Book Review: Kristin Demetrious, Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation DemetriousKristinPublic Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowle10
Characterizing the semantic features of climate change misinformation on Chinese social media10
Book review: Myrna Perez Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy10
Public acceptance of evolution in the United States, 1985–202010
Book Review: Maya Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science Alex de Waal, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives9
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media9
Are we bad winners? Public understandings of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report among Finnish digital media and their readers9
Moral expression of “experts” and public engagement: Communicating COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook public pages in Chinese9
Climate and nature emergency: From scientists’ warnings to sufficient action9
A different image? Images of scientists in Chinese films9
Gene editing in animals: What does the public want to know and what information do stakeholder organizations provide?9
Thank you reviewers9
Lay metrology and metroscoping: Towards the study of lay units9
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change8
Democratising science in deliberative systems: Mobilising lay expertise against industry waste dumping in Taiwan8
Book review: John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo, Strategic Science Communication – A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for more Effective Public Engagement8
The journalistic understanding of science as process and social system: A qualitative exploration in the German science journalism community8
The perception and use of generative AI for science-related information search: Insights from a cross-national study8
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework8
Thank you reviewers8
Public perceptions of climate tipping points8
“We think this way as a society!”: Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews8
What are we talking about when we are talking about the audience? Exploring the concept of audience in science communication research and education8
Examining a conceptual framework of aggressive and humorous styles in science YouTube videos about climate change and vaccination8
From Big Farms to Big Pharma? Problematizing science-related populism8
I am a scientist . . . Ask Me Anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session8
1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife7
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science7
Reporting preprints in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic7
The health and environmental risks and rewards of modernity that shape scientific optimism7
Threatening experts: Correlates of viewing scientists as a social threat7
1796 – An Introduction to Botany: The critical role of women in eighteenth-century science popularisation and the early promotion of science for young girls in Britain7
Book review: Pascal Hohaus (ed.), Science Communication in Times of Crisis7
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture: A comparative content analysis of mass media in the United States, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada7
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis7
How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online7
Analytical categories to describe deficit attributions in deep disagreements between citizens and experts6
Book Review: Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art6
Advocacy – defending science or destroying it? Interviews with 47 climate scientists about their fundamental concerns6
Book review: John L. Rudolph Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)6
Are science communication audiences becoming more critical? Reconstructing migration between audience segments based on Swiss panel data6
Positions on science and religious beliefs across societies: Development of a research instrument and testing of its validity among high school students6
Guidance in the chaos: Effects of science communication by virologists during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany and the role of parasocial phenomena6
Perceptions of policy problems and solutions: Climate change and structural racism6
Public perception of new plant breeding techniques and the psychosocial determinants of acceptance: A systematic review6
Greenpeace and the online genetically modified food debate in the UK: The role of science and scientific evidence in ‘environmental representation’6
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries6
Academic excellence and community relevance: Can we have it all?6
Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale5
Seduction, caution, fight: Media framing of research-based expertise in Norwegian print media coverage of low energy buildings (2005–2012)5
Fiction references as framing devices in extended reality news discourse5
Book Review: Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest5
The translator versus the critic: A flawed dichotomy in the age of misinformation5
Brain-computer interfaces, disability, and the stigma of refusal: A factorial vignette study5
Audience segmentation analysis of public intentions to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia5
Belief updating when confronted with scientific evidence: Examining the role of trust in science5
Richard S. Ellis, When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn5
Credibility of misinformation source moderates the effectiveness of corrective messages on social media5
Martin W. Bauer: ‘“Truth-value” is not the only criterion of validity, there is also the felicity of performative knowledge claims . . .’5
“Here comes Bio-me”: An analysis of a biobank campaign targeted at children5
Book Review: Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines and Roslynn D. Haynes (eds) Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel5
Selected by expertise? Scientific experts in German news coverage of COVID-19 compared to other pandemics5
The effect of misinformation and inoculation: Replication of an experiment on the effect of false experts in the context of climate change communication4
Christianity-science compatibility beliefs increase nonreligious individuals’ perceptions of Christians’ intelligence and scientific ability4
Public engagement with emerging technologies: Does reflective thinking affect survey responses?4
The invisible frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining sourcing and the underrepresentation of female expertise in pandemic news coverage4
Tragic Flaws and Practical Wisdom: Public reasoning behind preferences for different genetic technologies4
Why do experts disagree? The development of a taxonomy4
Imagined futures for livestock gene editing: Public engagement in the Netherlands4
Narratives of hope and concern? Examining the impact of climate scientists’ communication on credibility and engagement4
David S. Caudill, Expertise in Crisis: The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies4
Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century4
Open science and public trust in science: Results from two studies4
Fuelling the climate and science ‘denial machine’ on social media: A case study of the Great Barrier Reef’s 2021 ‘in danger’ recommendation on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook4
Mindful mindfulness reporting: Media portrayals of scientific evidence for meditation mobile apps4
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic4
Public understanding of science and technology in the Internet era4
The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States4
Science as the raison d’etat: Nehruvian scientism and the Indian science museum3
Between data providers and concerned citizens: Exploring participation in precision public health in Switzerland3
Believing in science: Linking religious beliefs and identity with vaccination intentions and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic3
What if some people just do not like science? How personality traits relate to attitudes toward science and technology3
Associations of locus of control, information processing style and anti-reflexivity with climate change scepticism in an Australian sample3
Children’s conceptions of coronavirus3
Can scientists use simple infographics to convince? Effects of the “flatten the curve” charts on perceptions of and behavioral intentions toward social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Establishing an everyday scientific reasoning scale to learn how non-scientists reason with science3
Public understanding of preprints: How audiences make sense of unreviewed research in the news3
Dealing with dissent from the medical ranks: Public health authorities and COVID-19 communication3
Book review: Mark Solovey, Social Science for What? Battles Over Public Funding for the ‘Other Sciences’ at the National Science Foundation3
‘Ugly and smelly or useful insect hunters?’ Perceptions of and attitudes towards bats in the turn of the twentieth-century public sphere in Barcelona3
Thirty years of science–society interfaces: What’s next?3
Public communication at research universities: Moving towards (de)centralised communication of science?3
Science on the mind: Examining question ordering effects when asking about science on large-scale surveys3
Feminist retroviruses to white Sharia: Gender “science fan fiction” on 4Chan3
Breeding by intervening: Exploring the role of associations and deliberation in consumer acceptance of different breeding techniques3
Mapping pathways to public understanding of climate science3
Work and the public understanding of science3
Book review: Jean Paul Bertemes, Serge Haan and Dirk Hans (eds), 50 Essentials on Science Communication (co-created by the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg National Research Fund)3
Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals3
A 30-nation investigation of lay heritability beliefs3
Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black3
Looking back and looking ahead3
The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation3
Stereotypes and social evaluations of scientists are related to different antecedents and outcomes3
European journalists and the sea: Contexts, motivations, and difficulties3
Book Review: Andrew Hoffmann, The Engaged Scholar – Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World2
How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion2
“That was not the discussion we wanted to have”: Engagement of civil society organizations with synthetic biology2
Comparing the structures of storytelling and magic for science communication with an agent-based model2
Thank you reviewers2
Book Review: Charles Seife, Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity2
How generative artificial intelligence portrays science: Interviewing ChatGPT from the perspective of different audience segments2
Science capital: Results from a Finnish population survey2
Book review essay: Digging deep into stories in science communication2
Can homeopathy cure all diseases? Subgroups of homeopathy users based on beliefs about whether and how homeopathy should be used to treat serious conditions2
Book Review: Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology2
Science museum educators’ views on object-based learning: The perceived importance of authenticity and touch2
Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars’ Tweet content2
Science-related populism declining during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel survey of the Swiss population before and after the Coronavirus outbreak2
A matter of right or wrong: Divisive attributes of moralized science and technology attitudes2
STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship2
Book Review: The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries2
Indicators of trustworthiness in lay-friendly research summaries: Scientificness surpasses easiness2
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–20202
Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?2
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